Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

An entire expo for a single franchise is a bit weird. If it's Mario or Zelda, I could maybe understand it, though I still think a Nintendo-themed expo sounds far more reasonable. Fire Emblem getting its own expo? Never expected that to be honest. Not even in Japan.

@Octane I wonder if they have something more to show, i.e Fe warriors 2 or something. Or we might think it is a bigger expo than it really is.

I am hoping for a new symphony tour announcement.

@Therad It's probably the latter.

Posted this in the game sub but, since it’s new info pertaining to a recent discussion, thought I’d share (since post and runs are unfortunately common here without following through with updated info)

Still a little rough, but it seems that day one update did actually help quite a bit. I just watched this entire video and while it does seem to be a bit rough when bringing up the menu and things like that, with texture pop-in still noticeable, one thing that was notably absent was repeated severe frame drops. It actually seems to be running fairly decent. Not perfect mind you. Probably on the lower end of what’s considered acceptable but, I certainly wouldn’t call the game unplayable judging by this new footage posted today. Now, handheld may still be another story, Idk. I haven’t seen any post-update footage of that yet but, I may actually end up ordering this. It really comes down to the handheld footage, since that’s a big part of the appeal on Switch. If it runs decent on the TV but not handheld, it’s probably best to stick with the X1X version. But, for someone who only has a Switch, if console play is your thing then ARK seems a potentially viable option.

Spawnwave showed an interesting graphic for revenue breakdown of digital vs physical.

This explains why cheaper $20 games tend to not see a physical release on Switch. For digital, there’s a 30% fee to the platform manufacturer, and that’s it. 70% goes to the publisher (which in the breakdown, they write that off and look at it in terms of how much they get of the 70%, but I’m not going to do that, I’m going to compare total percentage of consumer dollars paid).

So, digital they get 70% of what we pay. But for physical, there’s a 25% fee right off the top, so 5% less, but then there’s a 20% royalty for physical distribution. Flat fee. Physical media cost would be on top of that, and it would be a variable cost dependent on the size of the cart and quantity ordered. Let’s take a $20 game like Okami or Onimusha or Resident Evil Revelations 1 separately or Resident Evil Revelations 2 separately or any of the 4 separate Mega Man Collections.

$20
-$5 (25% platform fee)
-$4 (20% physical distribution royalty)
-$3 (estimated 8gb cartridge cost, but this could be as high as $5 given proprietary format)

=$8 profit per game sold (40% goes to publisher) PHYSCIAL
vs. $14 profit per game sold (70% goes to publisher) DIGITAL

I don’t like it more than anyone else, but at least it’s now understandable. I can now empathize with why. I still think these companies could do a physical release afterward (and it would have to be afterward so as to not steal sales from the much higher 70% margins) via LRG or, even a small 10k run of physical copies sold on their website. Those are guaranteed to sell every last copy and if it released 1 year after digital, it wouldn’t interfere with revenue. In fact it would add to total revenue as it would be extra sales beyond what they sold digitally.

There's some interesting maintenance on Tuesday, everything to do with Switch is offline and occurs at 5-6am UK time. Haven't seen one of those in a while, it's usually eshop, online play, a specific game or parental controls.

@Grumblevolcano It’s the final countdown haha. Though I’m surprised we haven’t gotten any Smash-oriented profile icons.

There's several icons of smash characters

@Yosheel yeah, I went with Kirby. But I meant like a smash ball or something

@HobbitGamer Given ARMS got more icons after its content was finished, I could see more Kirby icons come in the next system update as Star Allies content is now finished.

Andddd the secret gameee of koeiTecmo is :

https://www.gamecity.ne.jp/sengoku4/dx/?ranMID=37601&ranE...

Basically, SW4 + DLCs... :/

@Cobalt funny enough, this is probably not the reveal coming December 6, 2018.

@Aozz101x

One of the reveals will be probably linked to the Mortal Kombat series...

@DarthNocturnal So what's going on in here?

@Cobalt I was hoping for a new Project Zero (Fatal Frame) game...

@BlueOcean Good luck with that. I expect Nintendo to continue to mistreat that series in the West. FFIV didn't release outside of Japan at all. The Wii remake of Crimson Butterfly never hit North America. FFV was digital-only in NA.

If we're lucky, maybe we'll get another 3DS spinoff abomination as a retail release.

@Ralizah I am a big fan. It took a massive Twitter and Miiverse campaign just to localise Maiden of Black Water. Nintendo is cruel.

@BlueOcean I guess it's always possible they could release a Switch entry, actually market it properly, and see healthy sales in the West. Xenoblade Chronicles, as a series, sure is looking healthy considering fans literally had to beg for the Wii original to get localized.

@Ralizah Localisation was already done by Nintendo of Europe, it's just that NOA was stubbord to bring it over. NOE wanted to bring the game to E3, but NOA simply said no, because they had no intention of selling it in NA. Weird times...